An intertidal pseudoscorpion
This pseudoscorpion lives along the Gulf coast of Florida under piles of seaweed stranded at the high tide line. Its habitat gets covered by the tide twice a day and, obviously, the pseudoscorpion survives immersion in sea water for a few hours everyday.
The associated fauna include the snails Assiminea succinea, 2 species of Truncatella, small ellobiids and also small isopods, amphipods and a few other tiny arthropods.
If you can identify it, please post its name in a comment.
3 comments:
Can you give us a sense of scale for this thing? How big/small was it?
Also, this is awesome. So going to look for these guys when I head to the beach later this week.
The body of the specimen in alcohol, excluding the pedipalps, is about 2 mm long.
Dinocheirus tumidus
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